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UTEP president and others urge expanded, targeted investments to broaden and stabilize U.S. STEM pipeline
Summary
Dr. Heather Wilson described UTEP’s long-running, data-driven approach to increasing STEM participation and urged outreach, state–federal partnerships and funding stability to keep diverse students in science careers.
Witnesses and members stressed that retaining and expanding the STEM workforce is essential to U.S. competitiveness and that short-term funding disruptions threaten career pipelines.
Dr. Heather Wilson described the University of Texas at El Paso’s approach: she said UTEP “started out with recognizing that talent is widely distributed, but opportunity is not,” and that the institution uses data and wraparound supports to help students succeed. She reported that UTEP serves a…
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